While it was Percy Shelley who argued that poets were the “unacknowledged legislators of the world”, William Wordsworth was the poet, according to Jonathan Bate, who actually transformed it. After the ...

All this year I've been highlighting poets from the Renaissance to today. Last month's column focused on the 18th century and Alexander Pope. By and large, the poets from the 16th to the 18th ...

"These verses," William Wordsworth wrote of "Nutting"', "arose out of the remembrance of feelings I often had when a boy, and particularly in the extensive woods that still stretch from the side of ...

Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800, and William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on April 23, 1850.

Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth, English scholar: born London 28 November 1932; Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford 1958-80 (Emeritus); Lecturer in English Literature, Oxford University 1958-80, University ...

Show at National Trust’s Wordsworth House and Garden in Cumbria to mark 250th anniversary of poet’s birth More than two centuries ago there was cruel and rude gossip about how startlingly close the ...

One of Wordsworth's manuscripts and portraits go on display in South Korea and China.